Posted on 10/04/2016 9:26:20 AM PDT by Perseverando
You haven’t done your homework!! HLS/DOD estimate 90% casualties first year.
“There needs to be a minimum of 3 layers of aluminum foil completely surrounding the device.
Use a minimum of 5 layers if you’re not going to be using a second layer of shielding, e.g. the metal trash can.
The foil must not contact the device directly, so first wrap it in paper or cloth. I use cloth.
The foil-wrapped device must not touch the inside of the outer Faraday container.
In order for the Faraday cage to be effective, the metal needs to completely surround the device being protected.
Use heavy duty aluminum foil, the thicker the better.”
http://thesurvivalmom.com/why-and-how-to-protect-your-gear-from-emp/
EMP devices are by their nature, relative to large, yield optimized nukes, miniature. The idea is to maximize the EMP and minimize the yield. It doesn’t have to be big.
and that system is hacked as well.
And, right there, we have our first problem.
Can anyone tell me, with reasonable accuracy, if someone is a liberal just by LOOKING at them?
Now, if you've talked to them, or you have heard them espouse liberal ideologies and ideas and they have PROVEN they're a domestic enemy, fine.
BUT....can you tell someone is a liberal and an enemy by sight alone? Is it how they dress? Is it their skin color? Is it their neighborhood?
Do you stop them and frisk them down for weapons and happen to find an EBT card? I've seen some here who would say that alone qualifies them as an enemy.
What if the guy is doing his damndest to get by, but hasn't gotten a break and is using food stamps as a way to feed his family? What if he has a job but there just isn't enough money to cover food? Better yet....what if they're not a race that you'd associate with having an EBT card?
Some say that if someone works for the government...ANY government branch-federal state, OR local...they they're the enemy.
Take my brother-in-law...a fine, upstanding Christian man. Conservative as the day is long. Hates Obama and all liberals. Married with 4 beautiful and godly adult daughters. Happens to work for a local county government as a health department inspector. Does that qualify him as an enemy despite all the other wonderful things about him? I have seen some who have said right here on FR that if we're in a situation that calls for active warfare and someone walks out of a governmental building, they're a target. Really?
All I'm saying is that if we're willing to fight for our country, and if the situation demands that we have to engage ourselves against others who live in this country, you had better make DAMNED SURE that you know beyond a shadow of a doubt who the REAL enemy is.
(I'd hate to be shot dead by someone who mistook ME or my family for liberals. We ain't.)
Read the book “One Second After” and tell me what what you posted makes any sense at all. None of the electronics which make our modern society function will even exist. We’ll be put back into the 1800’s instantly. The preppers will be the only ones who survive long enough to see what history looked like first hand.
Uh, I’m not wishing for any such thing.
As for being “out fixing the infrastructure to get society running again” - I’m all for that, but how’s that going to happen when gas and diesel pumps at the stations don’t work because of lack of electricity, refineries don’t work, food can’t be delivered, tens of thousands dependent upon electricity to survive in hospitals and at home die, etc., etc.? In short, there will be such chaos that nothing of substance will get done - and if we have to replace the ultra-large step-down transformers (that are generally custom-made and have a 2-year lead time...and are made overseas), then nothing CAN get done.
You see what happens at a Walmart on Black Friday - people literally get trampled to death to save $10 or $50 on the latest toy or TV. What do you think is going to happen when the electricity fails, and people’s refrigerators and freezers die, and they can’t get water (because the water companies DON’T have fuel for more than a few hours of backup generation)? People will go batsh!t crazy to get food and water, and cooperation of any kind is going to be few and between. You also saw law enforcement run away in the face of a mere hurricane (Katrina) - what’re they going to do when the EBT cards don’t work, when they can’t call their momma in the next town or state, their kids are in school, etc. They’re going to disappear, just like in Katrina.
“how’s that going to happen...”
People. That’s what they do, solve problems. As long the people are alive, the problems will get solved. Assuming one setback, no matter how big, is going to send the human race on some extinction spiral is just foolish.
I never said extinction - not even for the American people. “Just” 90% casualties, IF the attack was done correctly. That’d leave about 32 million of us, not living well, with quite a lot of blood in the eye about the whole thing. Of course, I’d expect that we’d hit back at someone, or several someones, and to do so very hard. But the USA as we know it would cease to exist.
Worst case, I could easily see a couple billion people surviving, and we (the human race, not the rump USA) would colonize the solar system over the next couple hundred years.
You’re correct, one incident won’t cause an extinction event. But it could end the US as we know it. To think otherwise is simply hubris. That said, I think that we could easily build counter-measures to lessen the impact of such an attack (or a solar storm, for that matter), and thereby avoid the whole thing. But that requires a Trump Administration, with Newt Gingrich (who co-authored a book about an EMP attack) as a reasonably high-level advisor who could grab Trump’s attention on this issue.
Might hit that Georgia Guide stones target after all!
“Limit earth’s population to 500 Million”
Upshot: affordable housing will be plentiful.
RE: “That’d leave about 32 million of us, not living well, with quite a lot of blood in the eye about the whole thing.”
Note:
Russia has just reactivated numerous Shortwave frequencies for RU State broadcast use:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3476071/posts
Isn’t shortwave radio used for Energency Services response?
Follow RU Mil activity more closely should diplomatic rhetoric escalate.
DEFCON updates:
http://defconwarningsystem.com/dws/
RU AF bomber fighter movement non-SIGINT org:
https://mobile.twitter.com/AlRFORCEFREAK
The earth is oughly 8000 miles in diameter.Useful satellites orbit as low as 100 miles, and many do not orbit at all.
The problem is the cartoon form that satellite clouds are illustrated . Kids, gamers and most adults have no clue about the vastness of space in the neighborhood of earth.
I would.
They aren't muslims.
Thanks for the response, and I agree with everything except for “and many do not orbit at all”.
I think you meant that some appear stationary (geosynch orbits), but I’ll leave it up to you to explain that.
Getting back to the illustration, I was using it to make a point. Do you know what that point was ? (If not, I failed to communicate with that illustration)
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